Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles?It will happen in September 2008, according to Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera.

The New York-based filmmaker will make his operatic directorial debut with the opening event of the LA Opera’s 2008-09 season.

“I have no idea what I am doing,” Allen said in a statement yesterday. “But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.”

Allen is scheduled to direct Gianni Schicchi, part of Puccini’s Il Trittico, a trio of one-act operas.

The two other operas, “Il Tabarro” and “Suor Angelica,” will also have a movie director, William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).